BEg2 ch- Who killed Traipse and WIndust

[David Morris]

Lord Jesus! Hallelujah!
THANK YOU! Thank you, Mark, for pointing out that not only is this fiction,
it’s comedic fiction. Those that take it literally? The joke REALLY is on
them.

On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 2:56 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> YES!.....the novel is like this (as long as one adds that it is comically
> about this).....
>
> Everything is about asking the wrong questions; that's the important
> joke.....not like any of the other
> major books; most like *Inherent Vice..*..Pynchon's late capitalism
> vision......As if Measure for Measure were a comedy....
>
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 9:01 AM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I think what makes BE unsettling is just who is controlling who, almost
> as
> > if 9/11 was only a sideshow (like WW2 in GR), so Pynchon drops alot of
> > clues but everyone is implicated in some way, but no one emerges as the
> > overwhelming culprit or catalyst.
> > remember the chatter in the summer of 2001 was blinking red in the
> > intelligence community. who knows who else was privy to that. The idea
> any
> > 'government' as we know it, be it the US, Israel (so if so, well,
> remember
> > that story about Jews being warned not to show up for work that day, i
> mean
> > seriously?) or others, even the Saudis, were behind 9/11 is asking the
> > wrong questions. I remember Windust's claim of 'no one is that good'.
> >
> > rich
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 5:05 AM Thomas Eckhardt via Pynchon-l <
> > pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Thank you, Joseph (and Michael).
> > >
> > > PROMIS is, via Robert Maxwell, who according to Hersh was a Mossad
> > > agent/connection, also tied to Iran-Contra, Adnan Kashoggi and the
> > > Epstein saga, and via Rafi Eitan (the handler of Jonathan Pollard, who
> > > is also mentioned in BE) definitely to Israeli intelligence.
> > >
> > > Whitney Webb has a lot to say about this - much of it proven, some of
> it
> > > more on the speculative side. See Webb's substack or Jimmy Dore's
> > > interview with her.
> > >
> > > I agree with your view on how Pynchon handles these topics.
> > >
> > >
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